JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday ratified a criminal code that includes laws to ban sex outside marriage and insulting the president, part of a sweeping legal overhaul that critics say undermines civil liberties in the world’s third-largest democracy.
The new criminal code was passed by a parliamentary plenary meeting, during which legislators hailed the success of passing a bill that has been decades in the making.
(Reporting by Kate Lamb and Ananda Teresia; Editing by Ed Davies)
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